Matching the challenge grant: We are so close . . .

ArtsATL is $1,500 short of matching its $20,000 challenge grant. Can you help? We would like to be able to serve the arts community in 2013 with even more coverage than in 2012. To do so, we must cross this finish line by December 31.

Need to wait until January? To make a pledge, contact me at fox@artsatl.com.

“… I sounded a somewhat pessimistic tone about the fate of arts criticism, given the hostile attitude of so many newspapers and periodicals around the country, but Third Coast Digest … ArtsATL in Atlanta and the Arts Desk in the UK [are] suggesting an alternative future.” — Alex Ross, classical music critic for The Rest Is Noise

“As Atlanta continues to evolve as a center and source of art and culture, it is more important than ever that her artists benefit from a rigorous and constructive dialectic with art critics — trained informed critics who write with an equal focus of intention and who aspire to excel with equal passion. ArtsATL is just this kind of example of the best in arts criticism, and, as such, is a godsend to the artists of our community and to all those who, as a result, will benefit from their creativity even more richly.” —Tom Key, actor and executive artistic director of Theatrical Outfit

Catherine Fox is co-founder of ArtsATL and served as executive director, executive editor and chief art critic for its first six years. She was art and architecture critic at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for 27 years, during which time she was Cox Writer of the Year, twice winner of Cox awards in criticism, received two Green Eyeshade Awards and an award from the American Association of Sunday and Feature Editors. She holds a master’s degree in art history from the University of Michigan. She is a co-author of Noplaceness: Art in a Post-Urban Landscape. She received the 2013 Community Impact Administrator Arts Award from the Emory College Center for Creativity Arts for her work on ArtsATL.